SEOPress recently released version 5.9 of their WordPress SEO plugin, introducing Google Analytics 4 statistics in the WordPress dashboard, a new HTML Sitemap block and AMP compatibility. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » New GA4 Stats Dashboard Widget GA4 Statistics ©SEOPress With the latest update, you can finally view your Google Analytics 4 stats directly in your WordPress dashboard. Navigate to SEO > Analytics > Google Analytics > Stats in Dashboard section to enter your GA4 Property ID. Once this is done, you will see your site visitors, sessions, page views and more. Note that these statistics […]
SEOPress recently released version 5.8 of their WordPress SEO plugin, introducing primary category support for Gutenberg, automatic cleaning of media file names, and much more. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » Primary Category For Block Editor Primary Category ©SEOPress Following the launch of the universal SEO metabox, SEOPress is fully integrated into all page builders, including the Block Editor aka Gutenberg. However, until now it was not possible to select a primary category for posts. This is finally a thing of the past, as you can now select it directly in the categories panel of the editor. In a future update, they will also support this for the Classic Editor, especially for WooCommerce products. Better Image SEO Automatic Cleaning Of Media File Names ©SEOPress To improve your image SEO, SEOPress now automatically cleans up the filename of your media when you upload it to the media library. For example, spaces, accents and capital letters are removed and UTF-8 encoding is enforced. For example, the file name “ExãMple 1 cópy!.jpg” will be rewritten as: “example-1-copy.jpg”. The “Cleaning media filename” option can be enabled at SEO > Advanced > Image SEO. Risk-Free htaccess Editing Edit Your htaccess Risk-Free ©SEOPress With the Pro version, you can edit your htaccess file directly from your WordPress admin. However, even the smallest […]
SEOPress just released Insights version 1.4 introducing a competitor tracking, support for two more search engines, and more to the off-site SEO plugin. Get The Off-Site SEO Plugin For WordPress » Competitor Rankings Competitors ©SEOPress In the latest SEOPress Insights update, an exclusive new feature was introduced that allows you to find out which of your competitors is in the top position for each keyword tracked. Quickly find out who your direct competitors are so you can find ways to outrank them. This new data is available now at no additional cost and is updated daily. New Search Engines Search Engines List ©SEOPress Due to popular demand, SEOPress Insights now also supports the following two search engines: Google.ie (Ireland / English), Google.com.hk (Hong Kong / Chinese) Simply head over to Insights > Settings, choose your search engine and start tracking your rankings in no time. Improved Email Notifications Email Alerts Settings ©SEOPress SEOPress has made several improvements to the ranking email […]
SEOPress just announced version 5.4 of their WordPress SEO plugin, introducing a new Google and Bing instant indexing feature which is even available in the free version. Lastly, they […]
SEOPress just announced the so-called Schema Update for their popular WordPress SEO plugin. This includes a manual “How-to” schema, automatic schemas improvements, and new schema properties. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » SEOPress 4.7 How-To Schema When editing a pist, page or post type, you can now add a manual “How-to” schema to your post via the SEOPress structured data types metabox when you edit a post, page or post type. Better Automatic Schemas They have released the following new condition to automatic schemas: Post ID is equal / is not equal to “your post ID”. New Schema Properties SEOPress added the following new properties to both automatic and manual schema: Speakable property (for Article schema) ReviewBody property (for Review schema) Menu and acceptsReservations properties (for Local Business schema) Video property (for Recipe schema) Author property (custom; for Article schema) Start Date Timezone, Organizer Name and Organizer URL properties (for Event schema) In other news, you can now noindex attachment pages at SEO > Titles & Metas > Advanced. Finally, SEOPress now also supports the Dutch language. SEOPress Pro comes with a very low price tag of just $39 per year for unlimited sites. Optimize The SEO […]
SEOPress just announced loads of new features for their popular WordPress SEO plugin. This includes a new Compatibility Center, HTML sitemap enhancements, Local Business with multiple opening hours, and much more. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » SEOPress 4.5 Compatibility Center Non-technical users are now able to apply some of the SEOPress hooks in just one click at SEO > Tools > Compatibility Center. For example, this allows you to automatically generate meta descriptions for page builders. HTML Sitemap Enhancements You can now pass the new argument “cpt” for the shortcode to include specific post types such as . They also added a new option to the HTML sitemap settings that allows you to remove links from archive pages, e.g. Products. New Import Tools You are now able to migrate SEO data from Platinum SEO Pack, SmartCrawl and SEOPressor. Head over to SEO > Tools > Plugins for the migration wizard. Local Business With Split Opening Hours Finally, SEOPress’ global local business schema now supports multiple aka split opening hours, e.g. morning and afternoon opening […]
Benjamin from SEOPress has just announced the release of version 7.6 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, introducing an AIOSEO redirect import, Google Analytics consent mode v2, an improved UI, […]
Benjamin from SEOPress has just announced the release of version 7.1 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, introducing automatic alt text for images, support for GPT-4, and more. Automatic Image Alt Text & GPT-4 OpenAI & Alt Text ©SEOPress You can now select the GPT-4 model instead of GPT-3.5 Turbo by navigating to SEO > PRO > AI. There you will also find a new option that allows you to automatically set the alternative text using AI. So every time you upload an image file to your WordPress site, OpenAI will analyse your image file and provide you with an alt text. SEOPress now also offers a bulk action to generate alt texts from the list view of the WordPress media library. In other news, SEOPress now passes the target keywords to the prompts sent. This should improve the results for OpenAI generated meta titles and descriptions. Improved Wizard Assistant & More Indexing Steps ©SEOPress Based on user feedback, SEOPress now allows you to set author, date and search archives as “noindex” directly from the wizard. In addition, they have further improved the UX and responsive design. In SEO > PRO > robots.txt you can easily block the Google Bard AI bot from crawling your content. Finally, they’ve also removed keyword density and word count from the content analysis as […]
SEOPress just released the latest version of their awesome WordPress SEO plugin. Version 3.8.8 comes with Google Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics, multi-domain robots.txt file, and redirects to htaccess. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » SEOPress 3.8.8 Google Analytics Ecommerce Options ©SEOPress Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce (Beta / Pro) Being one of the most requested features, it allows you to measure purchases, additions to and removals from shopping carts. Currently it only works with WooCommerce, but the SEOPress team hopes that they can support Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) in the future as well. Multi-Domain robots.txt File (Pro) You can now have a robots.txt file per site for multisite and multidomain installations. Export Redirects For .htaccess File (Pro) You are now able to export redirects in a txt format at SEO > Tools > Redirections and copy and and paste it into your .htaccess file. In other news, they have improved compatibility with Elementor, WooCommerce, Permalink Manager, Admin Columns Pro, WPML, Polylang, and […]
SEOPress just introduced various new features for their top-notch WordPress SEO plugin including Facebook preview, a revised pixel counter, and new cookie bar customization options. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » New Features Find Out How Your Post Will Look Like On Facebook ©SEOPress The latest SEOPress version 3.7.8 comes with the following new features: Facebook Preview is now available at SEO Metabox > Social tab Pixel counter for titles and meta descriptions now works with every language and alphabet New cookie bar customization allows you to change background, colours, and buttons at SEO > Google Analytics > Cookie Bar / GDPR tab New checks to content analysis for social networks (Open Graph / Twitter cards) will now detect duplicated tags and conflicts SEOPress is now fully […]
